Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1943)
The OREGON STATESMAN. Sd0iit,Orgon. Thursday Morning, January 21, 1313 PAGE 1J2JS McKenna Outlines Six-Point Tax Program, W ith Sales Levy Sen. Coe A. McKenna of Multnomah county, member of the senate assessment and taxation committee, at a meeting of that body Wednesday outlined his proposal for a six-point tax pro gram, central feature of which would be a sales tax designed to raise $20,000,000 to $25,000,000. He mentioned a 3 per cent tax rate. " Other points submitted by Sen. McKenna: Adoption of 40 mill tax limit based on 50 per cent property . valuation.. ; , ; .... Reduction of state income tax to 3 per cent on personal and 5 per cent on corporation. This would be flat' tax. . Elimination of intangibles and excise taxes. V Reduction of gift taxes so that this tax is not greater than those . In operation in Washington and ' California. . Reduction of inheritance tax so that it is no greater than those In California and Washington. All six points were discussed by the committee but no definite action was taken. Members of the committee said they desired to have all of the important tax bills at hand before making any definite recommendations. Another meeting of the com mittee win be held later in the week. Bar Presses Retirement Members of the legislative com . mittee of the Oregon State Bar, meeting with lawyer members of the legislature, said they would press for enactment of a judges' retirement act somewhat similar to the one approved by the 1941 legislature which was vetoed by Covi Charles A. Sprague. The bill to be presented at this sessinon contains a number of amendments, but provides for the voluntary retirement of cir cuit or supreme court judges up on reaching the age of 70 years following specified periods in ser vice. Attorney Arthur McMahan, Al bany chairman of the legislative committee of the bar, presided at the meeting. Speakers at the conference included Gunther F. Krause and F. M. Sercombe, both of Portland, president and secre- tary, respectively, of the bar association. Jones9 Bill Gains Favor Rep. H. R. ones (R-Marion) bill to permit sale of wines over the bar, provided they contain not more than 14 per cent alcohol, was off to a good start Wednes day when the house alcoholic control committee voted 3 to 2 to report it back to the house with a "do pass recommendation. Jones said he believed this mea sure would assist Oregon berry growers by stimulating the sale of Oregon-made wines. Lodge Seeks Changes in , Assistance ..." j . , J -. : ' i ' " , Liberalizing changes in Oregon's public welfare program, including old age assistance, are proposed in a series of seven bills spon- f sored by the Eagles order and Introduced in the lower house of the Oregon legislature Wednesday by Rep. J. D. Perry of Colum bia county, who is chairman of the Eagles legislative committee. They propose $40 old age as sistance payments, less only the pensioner's income from other sources. The public welfare set up would be changed substan tially in other ways. Appointed members of county welfare com mittees would be eliminated and the county court members alone would constitute the committees. By doing away with most of the investigations now required and substituting monthly report from the recipients of old age assist ance or other aid, the program would greatly reduce the number of case workers and other em ployes. The state commission's right of review also would be eliminated, making the county court mem bers' decisions upon applications final. Property ownership would no longer be considered in old age assistance grants. Members of the legislature would have ac cess to public welfare records. Tri-State Group Out for Oregon Noting that the Washington state legislature has approved a resolution favorable to the' crea tion of a tri-state commission to regulate the Columbia river fish ing industry. Sen. Merle Chess man, chairman of the senate fish ing industries committee, said members of the Oregon interim committee which participated in a study of the matter jointly with Washington and Idaho groups had been advised that the Oregon con stitution would not permit partici pation in such a program. Sen. Chessman indicated that a statement to this effect probably would be. included in the- interim committee's report, " not yet sub mitted to the legislature. He per sonally has-been a member of the interim committee only since shortly after his election last No vember, when he was appointed to succeed the late Sen. Frank Franciscovich; but as a member of the Oregon fish commission he ac companied legislators who made the survey of fisheries and spawn ing areas. Commission Bills Enter Correct Discrepancies Senate Has Parole " Board Measure The four bills correcting dis crepancies in statutes providing for appointment of state highway commission, liquor control com mission, barbers' examining board and sanitary authority members, due to the creation of a fourth congressional district, were intro duced Wednesday in the Oregon senate. - These bills, drafted at the sug gestion of Gov. Earl W. Snell, provide that these boards shall each consist as in the past of three members, no two of whom shall be residents of the same congressional district. The pres ent laws provide for the mem bers .to be appointed "one from each of the three congressional disticts.,, . ... The bU proposed by the state parole board, providing that maximum sentences shall be Imposed upon convicted crimin als by circuit judges, leaving determination of actual time served to the parole board, was introduced by Sens. Frederick Lamport and John Carson of Marlon county. Sen. Joel . Booth of linn in troduced a bill making it a mis demeanor to smoke in bed in a hotel or public lodging. The bill would make the practice punish able by a fine of $10 to $100 or imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed three months, or both. The senate approved Sen. W. H. Strayer's bill transferring re maining funds appropriated ' for the Old Oregon Trail centennial celebration from the highway commission to the centennial as sociation. The 1941 appropriation was in the amount of $15,000, some portion of which has al ready been expended. , Sea. Thomas R. Mahbnej la" troduced a bill fixing old age as sistance benefits at not Jess than $40 and not ' more than $50 a month, ti - i ' - The : senateVfishmgmdustries committee reported favorably biH protecting f the priorities of set net fishermen who enter mili tary service.. Medic License Bill in Senate ,i , . . . ....... . ' Graduates .in medicine or surg ery from f the University of Ore gon medical school or In dentistry or pharmacy from the North Pa cific college, and who have served six months In any branch of the United States armed forces dur ing the present war and honor ably discharged, could receive a license to practice without tak ing an examination under a sen ate bill introduced Wednesday. The application would have to be, filed within a year after the applicant left the service and not laterthan January 1, 1948. ' The bill was Introduced by Sens. Lew ; Wallace ;; (W-Mult) and J. J. Lynch (R-Mult). ; Cinema Stars Dominate Class r -v , - r ; t;, MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Jan. 20(ff) A cinema star-studded class - of officer candidates Wednesday heard former Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio advocate universal mili tary training in peacetime, during an address to the first graduating class of the new year, k J GUbert Roland, whose wife, Constance Bennett, accompanied him here during his training per iod; Bill Holden, Eric Rhodes and Bryant Washburn, Jr., all received their commissions with the rest of the officer candidates, j Assassinated Police are searching for the kuler : of tall, bearded Carlo Treses, 5$ (above), anti-fascist editor I f and former IWW leader, who ;j was shot to death 'mm dimmed ; i oat Fifth avenue ta New York City. Associated Press TeU- aat " Krupa Denies Charges ', SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 20 Gene Krupa, (Jrum-beating or chestra ' leader who pounds the goat skins like mad, Wednesday denied ,Jm used narcotics and pleaded innocent to charges of sending his youthful valet to bis room to remove a package of marijuana cigarets from his over coat :'':- 10 Safe in Crash TOPEKA, TCas, Jan. 20-(P)-Ten men parachuted ; to safety Wed nesday night when a heavy army . bomber' crashed - near ' Admire. ' Kas. No one was hurt. Usual Wave tl. Complete Perm Oil Push Wave 49 9E Completer 64W Open Thurs. Eve. by Appointment Phono 3663 305 First National Bank BIdg. ; CASTLE PEKM. WAVERS P2 n nn t & it ip irot S im g The War News By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analysis for Tht Statesman With Russian forces reported almost as close to Kharkov in the upper Don region as they are to Rostov on the lower Don approaches, apprehension is rising in Berlin. This anxiety is re flected by nazi military and other commentators whose words are recorded by British and American listening posts. However misleading the Ger man war bulletins from Russia continue to be, it cannot be doubt ed that an attempt is being made on the home front to prepare the German public for worse news than it heard last winter. Russian armies which Hitler boastfully told his people had been smashed beyond recovery are now being described to German listeners as bigger, better armed, better led and more aggressive than ever. Just what this conflict between nazi : military and civil authority means to the state of- German morale is unfathomable at this distance. It marks so sharp an about-face in German propagan da technique, however, that it might be an important clue to what is actually going on behind the nazi lines. The theme of the broadcast from Berlin and other German cities Is t h a t Germans mast again tighten their belts. In crease their war effort, match the eoorage and suffering of the armies in Russia am4 hang on to the bitter end. - r- ' There is little effort either by these home-front propagandists or by German prisoners inter Viewed by American news, writers in Russia to conceal another costly Hitler underestimate of Russian QUICK VLC0r.1E RELIEF FOR UPSET STOmACII finu STTJ ABT T AS LXTS eoataia T tmerxiicmts a aftaa asd by doctor, to brla araick wloaw tmliti bom actWiHgaa o aUatraaa eraasd by mm ! oh acidity ftat mUbo or diimkiaa. PUrt txt our to Uko. No bottio; mm miximq. rocwoa owial blowwl fM bom oscom add to, toy Uwxu STUAfiT TABLIT3 fkrt Wlay. At ail (bna atom 23a, SO ad SlJiO morale and fighting resources. These are even greater possi bili ties, ahead however, in a sus tained Russian push southwest ward to Kupyansk and beyond to cross the Donets, bypass Kharkov and strike across country toward the Dniper river. . Italian press reports depict the Russian drive below the Voronezh hinge as a major offensive by it self, not merely a northward ex tension of the Don-Caucasus bat tle front. If it is aimed not at Kharkov but at severing the net work of railroads in the Donets valley and between the Donets and .the lower Dnieper, it would justify that appraisal. Success could close a vaster Russian trap on the foe than any yet developed or threatened. DeLong at Reed PORTLAND, Jan. 20P-Law-rence DeLong, a native of Salem who received his BS degree in civil engineering at Oregon State college and his MS degree at the University of Illinois, has been ap pointed a physics instructor at Reed college. : , Hov To Relieve Bronchitis Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause It goes right to the seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, In flamed bronchial mueous mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way It quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. : - CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis A 1 " H ; I .. ' - r - V " -" -, ' I jit . ; i repoMj on ymmGos Oonip year of any s service Much has happened since the Territorial Assembly authorized the establishment of our gas business in January, 1859: Oregon became a state. Lincoln was elected. President. The Qvil War was fought . the Spanish-American War . . . then World War L Portland Gas flC.Coke Company weathered all these j events continued to expand and improve its service, in good times and bad. Then id 1942. World War; II was in full swing -challenging the Company with new problems and new responsibilities. But as in the past - Portland Gas SC Coke Company has met this challenge with' new and greater achievements. Some of these are summarized in this report to our customers, j ' r J . i m . l us. . i am i. - - - - mm a a m i : rii i.-v. l r t-" a w m m. i. More Gas to More Customers Briquet Production Greatest Ever Portland gas production in 1942 passed all previous records. The send-out for the year was 5,763,761,000 cubic feet 29 more than the previous peak year of 1941. Much of this increased volume went to war indus tries to help them build vitally needed equip, ment for our armed forces. But a raptdlj growing population accounted for a subs tea rial part of this mcrease. Last year 6,962 new gas users were added to our lines as much as a whole new dty of 20,000 population. The total number of customers served by Portland Gas, & Coke Company at the end of 1942 was 96,548 another new record. Because Of the fuel shortage caused by the war, the demand for Gasco Briquets was greater last year than ever before in-the com pany's history. Production in j 1942 totaled 91,600 tons 58 more than in 1941. But this production figure doesn't tell the whole story. The greater part of these briquets went to meet local heating needs. This tremen dously uxreased the amount of sacking and house-to-house delivering necessary. But by; . careful planning, scientific routing and bard work. our . crews kept deliveries right on " schedule. Because of tht splendid job our entire briquet organization has done, mora than 25,000 homes in this area have bad their fuel, problems economically solved. Gasco Briquets still are sold at the same low pdos s, in effect for the past four winters. - Roll of Honor Sixty-four members of the Portland Gas & Coke Company organization are now serrlng In that armed forces of the United States. Their names are listed on the Honor Roll below. And here at home, 10 of the Company's payroll k going into War Bonds every month to back them op. Gasco Motor Fuel . . . Gone to War, Too ! Clarence Walter Anderson Blair Babcock Lawrence William Bellmer Frank J.Bosvelt Irwin N. Brokenshira James Thomas Burke James Edward Butler Sydney E. Caldwell IJoydClaggett i Howard C Gofer Patrick O. Connor GlenAlvinDaka , OiesterE. Davis ) Clement Day i ; JohnPatrkklDodgan Marvin L. Folkharts Virgil Gellady IJoyd Leslie Goheen James Harold Grant Harvey G. Hanson Albert Hoeft Harold D. Hongen Roger L. Johnson Webster A. Jones Vincent Richard Klinefelter Leon Francis Kreidl Sulo Henry Laine Paul Lanceflekl JackK.Larkin Frank Leary George S. Linda S.A.MacDonald Cedl Malcolm MacGregor ; i( Henry Howell McCIain Francis W. Mason JohnD.Medak ; George L. Moore l! Wilfred Moorman if Raymond F.Nelson Otto A. Olson ji Ray Otto Olson f Kenneth J.Opkz ; Ransom Dale Powell j Charles Frederick Pride GeraldE. Reeves Walter E, Reeves Claud Rkketts i v t NcOMRilette Shelby Rhoton Jack Hugbston Roada Marvin Lee Rogers Edna Roth John Gregory Scbin William Bertram Singes? Luther Spraher LonaldH.Trinklefi John Seymour Tyler Lloyd RusseUVerhei Raymond Vogue Eugene Weber Holt Wilson Webster Wayne E.WeddIe M. Weinbaum John J. Winn, Jr. Portland Gas & Coke Company's benzol along with qumtitie of other important chemieml by-products hu also enlisted in LTnde Sam's services. Y6a knew benzol, blended with gasoline, as Gmmco Motor FmeL Haw benzol is used in 100-octane gasoline to give oar sir forces a more powerful aviarion fuel than any being used by the Axis. Benzol is also employed in the manufacture of syn thetic rubber and other essential war products. But when benzol's war job is done, youH find b. back In its former civilian role, ready to give you top performance In your post-war car (or plane) I Your Cooperation Means Much Heat Gonservation... A War Necessity . f r The manpower shortage, the staggering bur dens being carried by our transportation systems, the immense fuel consumption of our war Industries, the increasing population in this territory all have combined to make fuel conservation an fwntial part of the war effort. For this reason, saving heat in every way possible was a responsibility for the duration that every man, woman and child assumed cheerfully In 142 Everywhere are evidences that a real fuel and heat saving job is being dose,' but in the event that extremely cold weather should create an execs- . sire demand for gas, the War Production Board has directed m H residential customers and many businesses and industries to curtail temporarily their me of gas until : the emergency is over. You will be notified ; promptly, by newspaper and radio if and when such necessity arises. In addition to supplying gas service to our 04548 customers, we have the urgent job of producing a wide range of chemical products which are going directly Into war uses. For this reason, we are pertiailsriyj grateful for the splendid spirit of cooperation with which yon have accepted necessary war-time changes. We appreciate your business, . j andas hi peace time we are making every effort to give yoo the best public service possible. But the need for conserving tires and equipment- the acarcitv of materials- the loss of men to the - k armed forces together with other factors I- makeit difficult for us to carry on our business entirely as in the past. Service-calls, for exam ple, have to be routed In advance to minimize mileage -this means we cannot answer them quite so promptly as In the past. We are asking you on occasion to read your own meter. We may even have to ask your assistance on other maftrrs. But tchmtovor inconvenience see may have Or ask you to $hmrm with tu in 1943 whatever changes in production or. policy may he necessary these trill coma about only in aid of the common purpose of helping win the war at quickly as possible. Portland Gas & Coke Company
